PINK PISTOLS
Summary
Pink Pistols Exhibition will create an opportunity for photographers to confront and challenge audiences with fresh interpretations of gender roles and how the female body is represented. The exhibition will call upon artists to experiment with desexualizing or hyper sexualizing the contour of the female body. Through performance and sculptural acts in photography Pink Pisto
ls Exhibition seeks to provide original viewpoints of body and beauty that evoke different senses within the viewer. Manifesto
Taking a starting point from the article Convulsive Beauty: Images of Hysteria and Transgressive Sexuality: Claude Cahun and Djuna Barnes by Sharla Hutchison we begin our journey into an alternative perception of the human body, in which the outcomes will be presented in our Pink Pistols exhibition this year. We would like our exhibition to epitomise “ a window of opportunity for artists to shock
audiences into being more critical of the social systems that influence human behaviour” and
" to disrupt the perspective of audience in the way that it distort the object of desire by staging the body as both anamorphic and abject"
We aim to reject the theories and images that reinforce the categorisation of women as the weaker and instead we reinforce the ideas around convulsive beauty, followed by exhibiting disturbing upheavals in psychological coherence at the level of the individual mind or social body. The human body is in use every day but how often do we think about our bodies in an abstracted sense? How often do we challenge our perceptions and ideas around the body? Question the way that we use our body and how we perform with it on an everyday basis? How extreme can the body be shaped and molded? What kind of textures and volumes can be explored? The body is a key element to gender, identity and fashion and we find it interesting to explore desexualization or the ‘genderless’ via the body. As feminist artists we are also in particular interested in exploring the female body, its form and shape in new and unconventional ways. We aim to challenge the ideas and prejudges that persist in the media and in Western society and suggest new body and gender ideas. We want to change what is ‘okay’ to talk about and what is not. Far too long women have been discriminated for e.g. posting images with their ni***es - lets free the ni**le and celebrate the human body in all its forms and shapes.
